Call For Papers

The Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering (OKBQA) Workshop at SIGIR 2017 seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of knowledge and natural language interfaces. The main goal of this workshop is to join forces in developing open frameworks for knowledge extraction and question answering, to share standards, and to foster the creation of an ecosystem of tools and benchmarks. We invite submissions on a wide range of natural language interface research, including, but not limited to:

## Paper Submissions
OKBQA 2017 solicits the submission of original research papers in two types:
Full paper submissions (up to 8 pages, plus two extra pages for references) must describe substantial and original work.
Short paper submissions (up to 4 pages, plus two extra pages for references) must describe an original work which may present a small, focused contribution, a work in progress, or an interesting application case.

Please use the ACM proceedings style file http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
It has LaTeX files, Microsoft Word templeate file, and a sample PDF file.
Before submitting your paper please ensure you have read the Instructions for Authors and that your paper uses the prescribed style files. To submit your work, please use the submission page at the following Easychair address https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=okbqa2017
At least one author of each paper is expected to register for the workshop and attend to present the paper.